Director and writer Pat Collins’ latest feature film, THAT THEY MAY FACE THE 
RISING SUN, is set in the late 1970s in rural 
Ireland, just before the communications revolution vastly changed the dynamics of these small, close knit communities. Joe and Kate Ruttledge, having returned from London five years earlier to set up home near where Joe grew up, are now deeply embedded in their small, lakeside community. To a 
great extent this film is a portrait of a community and a way of life in rural Ireland that remained largely unchanged for many decades until the coming of radio, television and phones. In that society, neighbours helped each other with all the big jobs of the farming calendar – lambing, shearing, saving hay, cutting turf, etc – and visited each other’s houses to share 
news and talk by the fire. Complex, but mutually understood codes of manners determined people’s obligations to each other. THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN is based on the novel of the same name by celebrated Irish writer, John McGahern. It is a deeply rooted portrait of a lost Ireland, with a tangible, authentic sense of place in an elegiac and poetic exploration of language, landscape and life itself. Award-winning Irish 
director Pat Collins (Silence, Song of Granite) on behalf of his new film, That They May Face the Rising Sun starring Barry Ward (Bad Sisters, Extra Ordinary, Dating Amber) and Anna Bederke (Soul Kitchen, Frau Ella) alongside accomplished Irish actors Lalor Roddy, Ruth McCabe, and Sean McGinley. The film is an adaptation of John McGahern’s acclaimed final novel, following a year in the life of a rural lakeside community in 1970s Ireland and its cast of authentic, memorable characters.
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About the filmmaker – Award winning Irish director, writer, and producer, Pat Collins is also known for narrative features Song of Granite and Silence, as well as documentary films including The Dance and Henry Glassie: Field Work. Since 1999, Collins has made over 30 films, many of which have premiered at festivals including SXSW, the London International Film Festival, the Absolute Gallery at Galway Arts Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Cork Film Festival, among others.
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“…beautifully realised and quietly beguiling…” – Screen Daily, Allan Hunter
“… The film is true to the spirit of McGahern’s prose in the sense that nothing much happens, yet everything happens too, something veteran documentary maker Pat Collins – making his fiction debut – understands.” – Alistair Harkness, Scotsman
“…subtle and dignified performances across the board…” – The Guardian, Phil Hoad
“The provincial life, told in delicate movements in a script by Collins and Eamon Little, asks big questions about the nature of happiness. A half-finished garden structure is emblematic of a larger temporal standstill.” – Tara Brady, Irish Times
“…here’s a film that unwraps its mysteries slowly, revealing underits quiet surface the human condition writ delicate but deep.” – Financial Times